Same, for some unfathomable reason! May go buy that on iTunes, if my bid on a new tube tester falls through. 
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English science fiction writer Brian Aldiss refers to some examples of this kind of disaster story as “cosy catastrophe.” Though Aldiss’s use of the term is highly specific, it has gone on to be used broadly to describe fiction in which the British literary and scientific middle class recreates and conserves its values while facing a clash of challenging notions liberated by the chaos.
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I was more of a Blake’s 7 and star cops fan. The opening sequence to survivors was terrifying!
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I was trying to pick DVD’s to watch with the kids last night… Trying to avoid watchting the same old stuff again…
Harry Potter ( Board of that )
Night at the Roxbury ( If you have not seen it, then you have not lived [better watch it soon])
Johnny English ( Quite like em, but the kids could not decied )
I picked up “I Am Legend…” and thought, " That’s quite a good film…" … Then ran it through my head and popped it back on the shelf…
CHICKEN RUN Ardmans 1st feature… That will do
Rob
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Yeah Aldiss’s term really suits ‘Survivors’. The whole thing’s simply beastly but post-war middle class grit shall overcome.
Weird that Survivors was brought up - I’m watching the series from a torrent at this very minute. I’ve not seen it since I was very young in the 1970s. The character of Greg (the BBC’s mid-70s idea of a hunk) is a total bell-end!
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I have a box set of Disney’s Zorro that has served well in every flu, bug or wet bank holiday. Along with all the Dr who and everything by ray harryhausen or Gerry Anderson. None of my kids pals knew what they were talking about at school!
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Hard to beat the opening of Stingray. “Anything can happen in the next half hour!” And you get half a dozen explosions before the show even starts.
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Cleaned up the basement studio along with my only 3 LM4040 A1Z4.1…had to order 3 more just now from Digi-Key…sux. But on the bright side I got confirmation my power supply shipped so I can finally bring this thing to life!!! Also while I was cleaning I was thinking about component storage, what is everyone using?
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The FX folks who did explosions for Gerry Anderson are legendary – the crash near the end of Doppelgänger is one of the best explosions ever filmed, in any scale (link goes to trailer, cannot find the scene I mentioned online).
(film is pretty silly, but often looks fantastic and worth watching for the model work).
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Started fermenting a 7 Day wine kit at the weekend, 40L for £25 … It’s not high quality but it’s a 10th of the price of the Cheapest stuff in the shops. And actually more palatable than the ultra cheap stuff…
1st day yesterday it had not strarted fermenting, so I ordered some super yeast. But today it’s bubbling nicely…
6 days to go!!
Sadly my 2.5 months new years resolution to not drink at home has gone down the pan…
Rob
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I started doing the same with Ginger Beer. The “Brewer’s Yeast” I used didn’t seem to think it needed to wake up, so I put a little of my wife’s bread yeast in and it took off over night. Now I have decide if I throw the crap brewer’s yeast out for cupboard space…
Storage for passive components I use the compartment trays (fingers too old for baggies) .
The only sorting I do is to put them in columns by first number : so all my 1, 10, 100s are in one column the 2s in the next and so on.
Chips are again in trays with foam on the bottom but only because I was really bored one time.
Other components are in the bags they came in until I need them though I have many old tackle / tool boxes dedicated to switches, pots and connectors. I have one tray dedicated to power and one for odd chips’n’shizzle like parts for a UM66 based ‘occasional’ sequencer I’ve yet to finish. All, along with mcu stuff and containers live in some old filing cabinets inside a cupboard. When I start a project I make a pick list and visit the cupboard.
The exception? Resistors. I f’ing hate them. Too blind to see stripes and once off the paper tape I’m lost without a meter. Any solutions folks?
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I just keep mine in envelopes with the value marked on the front.
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Resistors have always been a problem for me. I’m too colour-blind to accurately distinguish all of the colours. My memory for colour coding systems is also poor because the names of the colours don’t always relate directly to my perception.
It’s always a good idea to test using a meter before using, anyway.
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Hey nice, we do a lot of fermentation here. Have 30-40 gallons of home wine sitting around . That was just a way to use all the various fruits from our property we had sitting in the freezer. I started a batch of rye bread kvass recently, as well as water kefir. That is on top of kombucha, sauerkraut, sourdough, kimchi, etc…there is a whole fridge full.
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its funny cause i was getting recommended home fermentation vids from youtube and was thinking about getting into it as well before year’s end.
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I used to have an App that did that for me. It uses the camera on your phone and decodes the value for you. I don’t think I ever tried it on one of those fancy metal-oxide film doozies with the extra band and weird colors but it was as accurate as the camera was.
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When I get mine I take them out of the bag and label the paper taps in case I accidentally leave a few strands on the bench. And there is this as well…
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I kinda look at this like a palm pilot…a solution looking for a problem.
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As a software geek, I find that glorious.
Also the English voice saying “shore thing” would by itself be worth watching the entire video.
For the record, I maintain an online spreadsheet with documentation of all my boxes and their contents. It’s about four years out of date.
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